Part 30 (2/2)

God keep you for me

Your husband who loves you SO!

LONDON, Septe you were at the farm, and well! HOW HAPPY IT MADE ME! I cabled you to Quebec, and to Mt Kisco, and when two days passed and I heard nothing, today I was scared, so I cabled Gouvey to look after you, and also to Wheeler I went to the Brompton Oratory today, which is the second most important church here (the cardinal lives at Westminster) and burned the BIGGEST CANDLE they had for you and the ”blessing” A big wo in the little chapel and when I could not get the candle to stand up, she beckoned to one of the priests, and he ran and fixed it Then she went on praying And WHO do you think she was? Queen Aal, you see her pictures in the Tattler and Sphere opening bazaars So sheher prayers all alone with the poor people and seeing thathere hoping to get soh Winston Churchill has urged hiive o over ”on my own” and I bet I'll see more than anyone else I have fine papers, anyhow I a Scribner article, so THAT is off my mind And now that you are hoot your cable earlier I would have had oysters and chane in BATH TUBS Give , and Toood care of yourself, and love me, and be happy for I do so love you dear one I DO SO LOVE YOU

YOUR HUSBAND

Septeot your cable in answer to s considered twenty-four hours was not so long for theet the answer to et nearer to a German than twenty miles At the battlefield I collected five Gerate they took ALL of theym,” and pound them with Indian clubs I wrote all day yesterday, so today I did not work

There is nothing more here to do And as soon asthe big battle was great luck So far I have seen more than anyone I have had no credentials; and yet have been with ALL the aret hoo to it But I can't without being arrested And I a arrested Today all the little children came out of doors They have been locked up for fear of airshi+ps It was fine to see the forts out of pebbles, and rolling hoops

God loves you, dear one, and I trust in Hiht of you What a lot ill have to tell each other One thing I never have to tell you, but it makes me happy when I can It is this: I LOVE YOU! And every minute I think of you

With all my love

Your

RICHARD

PARIS, Septe your letter of August 25th In it you say kind things aboutso et praise from you or to knoork pleases you Since the Gerain But for me it was bad as now the arht anywhere outside the city you are arrested and as a punish them two Times men and John Reed and Bobby Dunn, were sent to Tours Sunday I had another piece of luck that day with Gerald Morgan

I taxicabed out to Soissons and saonderful battle So, now I can go ho any fighting I never would have lived it down I aot the whole iht francs a day It used to be 49 francs a day Of course, Paris that closes tight at nine is hardly Paris, but the beauty of the city never soabout to take your s What MOST ars lying on the dressing table Give my love to Dai, and tell her I hope soon to see you The war correspondent is dead

My only chance was to get with the English ill take one American and asked Bryan to choose, he passed it to the Press association and they chose Palmer But I don't believe the official correspondents will be allowed to seeof Louvain and the Battle of Soissons and had a very serious run in with the Gero out, every endar For never, of course, was there such a chance to describe things that everyone wants to read about Again my love to Dai and you I will see you soon

RICHARD

In October Richard returned to the United States and settled down to co this period and indeed until the hour of his death reater part of his time to the cause of the Allies He had always believed that the United States should have entered the hen the Gerium, and to this effect he wrote many letters to the newspapers In addition to this he was most active in various of the charities devoted to the causes of the Allies, wrote a number of appeals, and contributedappeal he wrote for the Secours National:

”You are invited to help women, children and old people in Paris and in France, wherever the war has brought desolation and distress To France you owe a debt It is not alone the debt you incurred when your great grandfathers fought for liberty, and to help theenerals, Rochambeau and La Fayette You owe France for that, but since then you have incurred other debts

”Though you may never have visited France, her art, literature, her discoveries in Science, her sense of what is beautiful, whether in a bonnet, a boulevard or a triumphal arch, have visited you For them you are the happier; and for them also, to France you are in debt

”If you have visited Paris, then your debt is increased a hundred fold

For to whatever part of France you journeyed, there you found courtesy, kindness, your visit became a holiday, you departed with a sense of renunciation; you were determined to return And when after the war, you do revisit France, if your debt is unpaid, can you without eht Paris gave you freely Was it to study art or to learn history, for the history of France is the history of the world; was it to dine under the trees or to rob the Rue de la Paix of a new model; was it for weeks to motor on the white roads or at a cafe table watch the world pass? Whatever you sought, you found Now, as in 1776 we fought, to-day France fights for freedoainst militarism that is 'made in Germany'

”Herin the fields, sweeping the Paris boulevards, lighting the street lanificently capable They ask no charity

But from those districts the war has wrecked, there are hundreds of thousands of women and little children without work, shelter or food